{"id":70,"date":"2011-08-22T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:39:47","slug":"teamtris-a-4-player-dos-tetris-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/teamtris-a-4-player-dos-tetris-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamtris: A 4-player DOS Tetris Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/teamtris\">Teamtris<\/a> is one of the best and most fun multi-player Tetris games that you&#8217;ve probably never heard of.<\/p>\n<p>This year (2011) marks the 20th anniversary of when Teamtris was finished.  Twenty years later, it has finally been made free for all you retro gamers and Tetris addicts!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a DOS game, but you can enjoy it on all modern operating systems (Windows, Mac, and Linux) with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosbox.com\">DOSBox<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The game was coded by Tony Jedlovsky and myself, and you can read all about how the game was developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/teamtris\/story.php\">here<\/a>.  I also composed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/teamtris\/music.php\">music<\/a> for the game: 28 pieces of original music written for the Adlib sound card.  If you like retro game music, you can download the whole soundtrack for free on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/teamtris\/music.php\">Teamtris music page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to visit the Teamtris website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/teamtris\">www.brianorr.com\/teamtris<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave comments about Teamtris below. Happy Tetris&#8217;ing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teamtris is one of the best and most fun multi-player Tetris games that you&#8217;ve probably never heard of. This year (2011) marks the 20th anniversary of when Teamtris was finished. Twenty years later, it has finally been made free for all you retro gamers and Tetris addicts! Yes, it&#8217;s a DOS game, but you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compositions","category-development","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jXdF-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/looking-back-my-retro-computer-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Looking Back: My Retro Computer Music","author":"Brian","date":"October 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"- Are you a fan of retro computer-based music? - Are you a collector of MODs, S3Ms, ROLs or MIDI files? - Do you like video game and demo music from the DOS era? 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